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Thanks for the feedback. Our intention is to offer constructive criticism of Meta's product vision, not a sour attitude. Meta is marketing the Quest Pro as a p

Thanks for the feedback. Our intention is to offer constructive criticism of Meta's product vision, not a sour attitude. Meta is marketing the Quest Pro as a productivity device, but to us it doesn't seem to have much teeth: it can't replace someone's laptop, requires WiFi tethering to a host machine to be used as a VR Desktop machine, caps the # of screens it can emulate to 5, and has poor pixel density. Are these not fair things to point out?

koolala 4y ago
They started out very restrictive on their vision and ecosystem - but nowadays isn't all that made up marketing? You can't install Linux on it sadly but like... can it run any Android app? Can it connect to a PC Linux software in any way a power user would want? Can it run any program that can practically be built for it? I feel like it can but I obviously want more and something better.
camdat 4y ago
The Quest Pro will be (very soon) on shelves for customers to purchase. It's a product that exists with an app ecosystem and other users. As far as I can tell, SimulaVR won't have a product ready until at least Q4, and even then I'm sure volume will be low. Imo the most damning part of this article for SimulaVR is this annotation: >[6] There are lots of tradeoffs involved in battery life vs. headset weight that we still need to decide on. The Quest Pro has already made these trade-offs, and exists as a real device with specs that are available, while Simula is still trying to figure out the balance of your device? It's unfair to compare a released product to something that might be available to consumers sometime in the next year.
- dylan604 4y ago
  > SimulaVR won't have a product ready until at least Q4 How much closer to Q4 do we have to be for it to qualify as "real soon" in your book? I'm asking as it is Oct 24 with Q4 starting Nov 1. Unless, I'm not business savvy and have my fiscal confused with physical again?
  - camdat 4y ago
    I would forward this question to Simula, since their website still says: "We expect units to ship no earlier than Q4 2022, with priority given to Founders Editions." Given that, as you've said, we're in Q4 and there's no updated information available on their purchase page, I doubt it's going to be any time in the next few weeks.
    - kanetw 4y ago
      No, absolutely not Q4. We need to update that, but Q1-Q2 23 depending on how things go with suppliers.

koolala 4y ago

They started out very restrictive on their vision and ecosystem - but nowadays isn't all that made up marketing? You can't install Linux on it sadly but like... can it run any Android app? Can it connect to a PC Linux software in any way a power user would want? Can it run any program that can practically be built for it? I feel like it can but I obviously want more and something better.

camdat 4y ago

The Quest Pro will be (very soon) on shelves for customers to purchase. It's a product that exists with an app ecosystem and other users. As far as I can tell, SimulaVR won't have a product ready until at least Q4, and even then I'm sure volume will be low. Imo the most damning part of this article for SimulaVR is this annotation: >[6] There are lots of tradeoffs involved in battery life vs. headset weight that we still need to decide on. The Quest Pro has already made these trade-offs, and exists as a real device with specs that are available, while Simula is still trying to figure out the balance of your device? It's unfair to compare a released product to something that might be available to consumers sometime in the next year.

dylan604 4y ago
> SimulaVR won't have a product ready until at least Q4 How much closer to Q4 do we have to be for it to qualify as "real soon" in your book? I'm asking as it is Oct 24 with Q4 starting Nov 1. Unless, I'm not business savvy and have my fiscal confused with physical again?
- camdat 4y ago
  I would forward this question to Simula, since their website still says: "We expect units to ship no earlier than Q4 2022, with priority given to Founders Editions." Given that, as you've said, we're in Q4 and there's no updated information available on their purchase page, I doubt it's going to be any time in the next few weeks.
  - kanetw 4y ago
    No, absolutely not Q4. We need to update that, but Q1-Q2 23 depending on how things go with suppliers.